Paid Killer
Gunsmoke · November 22, 1959 · 23 min · 2,734 words
The transcript of “Paid Killer”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast November 22, 1959. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Round Odd City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violent that moved West with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they looked for and the last thing what a meet. It's a chance, a job, that it makes a man watchful. Not a little lonely.
Hey! Hey! Boy said you understand me. Yeah. Well, it better be important, mister. I don't make a habit of coming running when some saddle punk whistles. Yeah. Maybe you had an honor making a habit of calling people saddle punks.
No offense. Just an expression. I came up from the Pecus country. Been here and dodged about a week. Maybe you've seen me around. I've seen you. I've been talking to people. Everybody tells me it was a big shot back in Abilene.
Had all the games sewed up, three or four saloons paying off, a couple of hotels and so on. Then the boom busted and you come here. Since you've been here, you got no where. You know why?
You're talking, you tell me why. Dylan. Well, in a Mac Dylan, you tried to scare him and he wouldn't scare. So you tried to buy him. He wouldn't buy. He tried breaking him and he wouldn't break.
So, it'd be worth a thousand dollars to you if I'd kill him. It might. Yeah? Yeah, you're hired. You know, Chaucer, you haven't said three words in the last 20 minutes. That's not like you.
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